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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont Quotes

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Pride, Miracle, Mind
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the Beast—La Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com

Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Heart, Names, Ungrateful
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There is many a monster who wears the form of a man; it is better of the two to have the heart of a man and the form of a monster.

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Heart, Men, Two

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